BrandX

Originally Posted by PhilBilly

What's the one thing that you wish someone would have told you when you first started out? I have played other MMORPG's before so I have a little experience. What specifically about this game should I know?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Originally Posted by Dispari

Hmm, let's see.

* Turn off Sprint in combat. It burns through your blue.
* Just because your Scrapper can take Maneuvers at level 6 doesn't mean you should.
* Teaming is faster than soloing, and will teach you a lot.
* The best way to make money is to have a catgirl schoolgirl outfit and use /e panhandle in Atlas.

That's about all I can think of! Welcome to the game!

Originally Posted by Bellen

I have a Level 25, Fire/Fire Scrapper, Smoken Ashes, that I chose to go with a Teleport as Travel skill and Hover is more for show (character never walks) and I like taking my time while moving about. I use Teleport Foe as my sole range attack (and dropping mobs off buildings) If I had vet reward I would drop this in an instant.

Currently I have fight speed in hover and Swift (from fitness) and I can usually chase down running foes in hover. While I would like it to be faster and I can get where I want instantly with Teleport (within 100 yards). Teleport is slotted with a Endurance Reduction.

My question is how should I improve this?
Should I add slots to any power, currently all are at one (or to swift). While Adding range to Teleport would be nice, I don't see to much problem jumping only 100 yards a hop, and it makes it easy to calculate how many hops I will need.

Or should I just leave it and focus on my primary and secondary powers?

(btw: Endurance is three slotted with SO Endurance Modifiers, and is my only addition slot on auxilary power pool)

Originally Posted by Bellen

If I slot the Winter's Gift (currently level 25) how many levels is the buff good for. Do go away at level 29, like normal enhancements?

Originally Posted by MrLiberty

To Echo what others have said, for scrappers Regen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Everything else. The gap is insanely wide at the moment as far as performance goes. For Primaries Fire/MA/BS would be at the top with Spines and Elec being Decent.

For Blasters /Energy Manipulation is king. Psi, Fire, Archery, Sonic, Rad are all Viable options. In second place for secondaries /Devices gets it thanks to webnade. A more distant third place being /Mental

With /Elec I can't see any real reason to pick it. Havoc Punch hits about as hard as Fire Blast, only you need to be in Melee. Thunderstrike is gutted for damage because its treated as an AoE.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison

Gah, I have to stomp this out now. I am on a personal mission to prove that Kheldians do not suck.

I recently grabbed seven random people for Baby New Year teams and then proceeded to solo the mission with my warshade. I had several people ask "Remind me again why you needed a team?"

Originally Posted by Fury Flechette

Your Fire/Elec would be workable. Not top tier but workable. Energy manipulation is good because boost range is stupidly good in PvP. Fire/Em and Sonic/Em would be my other blaster recommendations.

Katana would be an awful choice for PvP. If you have to go with a sword concept, go Broadsword. The difference in damage in PvP between Katana and Broadsword is significant and noticeable. Also, PvP is not about concept builds. Pick what works and leave concept in your PvE builds. Go regen for your secondary. Electric is subpar and since you're intent on making a scrapper, you already have one notch against you from the start. Electric armor is just piling up subpar with subpar. Go regen.

Originally Posted by OriginalJustice

I was actually looking into a blaster as well. Anything else viable besides Psy/Em? I've got a fire/elec I was going to finish working on and then make another.

@Brandx, Thanx I've got a concept that works well with both fire and Katana, so I was goign to make both. How much of an investment is involved /Elec.

P.S. So many freaking Widows!!! Curse you mindlink

Originally Posted by black_barrier

precedent states that we would get the blaster version.


also, remember how underwhelming psi blast is in PVE when it comes to blasters. it does not even begin to compare to fire (for aoe) or ice (for single target dps).


i think we don't have psi because during proliferation rounds, psi blast would have required them to rework the blast set in the way they did it for blasters and since there's a lot less players red-side, it did not seem like a worthwhile pay off if they could just do it first for blaster, data-mine and figure stuff out. then giving corrs TA without archery would have made a lot of RP-ers e-angry so they didn't give it to us back then.



...anyways.
psi blast on corrs would mean i'd need to make a 4th cold corr... which is not as thrilling as it sounds.

Originally Posted by Kahlan_

I would kill for something with positron-level merits redside.

Originally Posted by GangstaBlade

Incase I run into an enemy resistant to fire(ill be taking fire as my bullet type) I'll easily just get 2 costumes with different bullet types so the fire resistant enemy will be like haha im strong against you and I'll be like hah sucker i have cyro bullets too! and the enemy im suspecting will be unresisting cold damage so WIN! and yeah it'll make gaming alot more fun like that!

Originally Posted by Gypsy_of_Paradox

Yes THOSE groups would not allow that type of action. But we're a video game based on comic lore, not a game constricted by their rules. My villain group will be allowing all hero ATs as I'm not going for RP value. Name off 50 more comic teams who wouldn't allow it, it wont make a difference.

I never said it would happen, I just said this is what I want. In that, what I posted does make sense. Let each group decide what they want. If your groups do not want to allow cross faction, nobody is forcing you. I just want it as an option.

Originally Posted by Umbral

Because. A. Single. Power. Was. Changed.

Read what you are saying rather than complaining that I'm not reading. I am reading what you're saying, and and what you're saying is that the change to a single power on a long recharge (20 seconds is a long base recharge for an attack, no matter how you attempt to obfuscate it) somehow fundamentally altered the way in which the entire set operated (it didn't, unless the entire operation of the set was built around ET's borkedness). That's like insisting that changing Frozen Aura so that it actually did damage fundamentally altered the way the entire set operated.

Originally Posted by StormDevil

I'm bringing up a Kat/Dark (level 28 at the moment), and I've been doing a lot of reading on the combo. A recurrent theme amongst /Dark guides is the "endless debate" regarding the merits of CoF and OG. I wanted to try to get some input from veteran /Dark players as to this debate.

Since I'm specifically interested in how the two will work with Kat/, it bears mentioning that I'm geared towards AoE more than ST (I'm actually skipping both Soaring Dragon and Golden Dragonfly in favor of a DA>GC>FS>DA>LD attack chain, minus the LD for prolonged ST fights). With the AoEcentric build, I'm of course running and loving Death Shroud. My understanding is that DS seriously crimps CoF's main selling point, while still allowing the -toHit to do its thing.

Will CoF keep stunned mobs from wandering away? Is it worthwhile to keep CoF up and DS down while fighting large numbers of mobs, then switching (CoF down and DS up) once the hard targets are clear?

Anyone who wants to chime in on this topic is more than welcome, and I'd also welcome any kind of general debate between the two powers, as opposed to their utility with just Kat/.

Thanks in advance!